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The whole Jewish population of Leeds is about five thousand." Boot-making. The hand-sewn trade, which constitutes the upper stratum of this industry, is executed for the most part by skilled workers, who get good wages for somewhat irregular employment.
Then double the piece over, tapes inside, and machine stitch the ends together, three quarters of an inch from the edge. All thread ends should be tied together to prevent unravelling, and ends of stitching should be hand-sewn through the tape, as the greatest strain falls on these points. The most convenient shape for the rods is square, as fitting the corners and taking tacks most easily.
But he wasn't a Rosenthall, Bunny; he had a treble-seamed, hand-sewn head, and could have drunk me under the table ten times over. "'All right, I thought, 'you may go to bed sober, but you'll sleep like a timber-yard! And I threw half he gave me through the open window, when he wasn't looking. "But he was a good chap, Ewbank, and don't you imagine he was at all intemperate.
In the struggle for existence of those hard years she had never had a minute to indulge in the pure joy of having her baby. I sat watching her with her first grandchild, so sweet in his exquisite hand-sewn little clothes, and suddenly I found myself crying hysterically. Mother was very dear to me from that day.
For instance, we all know the hand-sewn boot still holds its own against the most perfect article that machinery can turn out. There would be, in the centre of the Colony, a Public Elementary School at which the children would receive training, and side by side with that an Agricultural Industrial School, as elsewhere described.
One change I have made and it is that, having taken to the occupation of weaving and agriculture and having taken the vow of Swadeshi, my clothing is now entirely hand-woven and hand-sewn and made by me or my fellow workers. Mr. Irwin's letter suggests that I appear before the ryots in a dress I have temporarily and specially adopted in Champaran to produce an effect.
He had already appraised Rand, from his twenty-dollar Stetson past his Burberry trench coat to his English hand-sewn shoes, and placed him in the pay-dirt bracket; however, from some remarks Rand had let drop, he decided that this customer knew pistols, and probably knew values. "Why, that is sixty dollars, Mr. Rand," he said, with the air of one conferring a benefaction.
There were old candlesticks, guns, old dishes, old patterns, hand-sewn quilts and such little things of long ago as stirred the oldest folks there very nearly to tears and awed even the youngsters into a wondering respect for the old days they could never know. The old house hummed with the treasured memories of a hundred years.
It's plain he hated nails, for these are all hand-sewn, with scarcely as much as a peg visible in the lot; and they are all laced, boots and shoes alike. Come, this is the best-worn pair; it is also a pair of the same sort the maid tells me he must have been wearing, since they are missing; low shoes, laced; we'll take them with us." We left the house and sought our friend the coachman.
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